Taxon:
Pieris japonica (Thunb.) D. Don ex G. Don
Summary
Place of publication:
Gen. hist. 3:832. 1834
Verified:
03/14/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
- Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
- Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
- Iwatsuki, K. et al. Flora of Japan. 1993-
- Judd, W. S. 1982. A taxonomic revision of Pieris (Ericaceae). J. Arnold Arbor. 63:115-122.
- Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
- Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984
- Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985 Note: poisonous
- Luteyn, J. L. et al. 1995. Ericaceae - Part II. The superior-ovaried genera (Monotropoideae. Pyroloideae, Rhododendroideae. and Vaccinioideae p.p.). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 66:347. Note: mentions
- Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). 1965
- Walker, E. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. 1976
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986-
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
- Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
Japanese pieris – Japanese-andromeda – lily-of-the-valley-bush – French
piéride du Japon – German
japanische Lavendelheide – Japanese Rōmaji
asebi – Transcribed Chinese
ma zui mu –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Anhui | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Fujian | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hubei | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangxi | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Zhejiang | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Honshu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Kyushu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Shikoku | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Anhui, Fujian, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku], Taiwan
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann; Cooper & Johnson ed2) –